News
Tue, 06/10/2015
Nikola Poposki, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Macedonia, holding the current CEI Presidency, hosted for his counterparts a Working Lunch in New York on 1 October, on the margins of the UN General Assembly. This has become a traditional CEI gathering in particular with regard to the observer status in the UN General Assembly. EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, also participated in the event.
Thu, 01/10/2015
More than 30 lecturers and participants from European and North American countries gathered on 21-25 September 2015 for the fourth edition of the Logic and Applications (LAP 2015) International Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Thu, 01/10/2015
The event, held at the premises of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk on 14-18 September, gathered 127 participants from several CEI Member States (Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Romania), Cyprus, Great Britain, Georgia, Switzerland and Taiwan.
The Conference was organised by the Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Belarus and by the
Belarusian State University, and co-chaired by the Minister of Education of Belarus, Michail Zhuravkov, and Professor Vyacheslav Yanchevskii of the Institute of Mathematics, NAS.
The Conference was organised by the Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Belarus and by the
Belarusian State University, and co-chaired by the Minister of Education of Belarus, Michail Zhuravkov, and Professor Vyacheslav Yanchevskii of the Institute of Mathematics, NAS.
Fri, 25/09/2015
The high-level workshop on infrastructure development on “Building on the Virtual WB Regional Centre for Hydrometeorological Services and Climate Change” took place in Skopje, Macedonia on 23 September 2015.
Wed, 23/09/2015
The CEUB University Residential Center of Bertinoro in Santa Sofia, Italy, hosted the 21st CEI International Summer School ”Managing Diversities in Democracy: Minorities, Territories, Self- Determination” on 1-13 September 2015.
Wed, 23/09/2015
Five Technical Cooperation (TC) projects and eight Know-How Exchange (KEP) projects have been approved for financing by the CEI Fund at the EBRD, entirely contributed by Italy. The overall commitment amounts to 630.000 EUR for the TC projects and 260.000 EUR for the selected KEP projects.
Tue, 22/09/2015
The third Straniak Academy for Democracy and Human Rights held in Ulcinj, Montenegro on 6-19 September, gathered thirty-five students from the Western Balkans, Austria and other states. Professors and experts from Austria and the Western Balkans held lectures on democracy, the rule of law and human rights.
Tue, 22/09/2015
The CNC meeting held in Trieste at the CEI HQ on 18 September focused on recent and forthcoming events and activities under the Macedonian CEI Presidency and of the CEI Secretariat, including the preparation of the upcoming Ministerial Working Lunch in New York, on the margins of the UN General Assembly, on 1 October and the CEI Summit on 19 November in Skopje.
Wed, 09/09/2015
The International Competition for Chamber Music Ensembles "Premio Trio di Trieste ", taking place every two years in Trieste, is one of the largest in the world in the field of chamber music. The competition, organised by ACM – Associazione Chamber Music, pays homage to the outstanding activity and interpretation of chamber music by the renowned “Trio di Trieste” ensemble.
Tue, 08/09/2015
About 20 female organic producers from 9 CEI countries gathered for the first time during The Central European Women Farmers Gathering 2015 held on 29 August - 2 September in Pirot, Serbia. The gathering was hosted by the Amma – Center for the Care of People and Nature and co-financed by the CEI Cooperation Fund. The Global Federation of WWOOF Organisations and the Pirot Municipality participated as project partners.
Mon, 07/09/2015
Thirty one participants from 14 CEI countries gathered in Belgrade, Serbia on 19 July - 1 August 2015, for the 12th edition of the Two Open Weeks of PLAVO Theatre, the most attended edition so far.
Thu, 03/09/2015
Poet, writer and translator Kateryna Kalytko was born in 1982 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Her poems have been included in numerous anthologies of Ukrainian literature, and her works have been translated into English, Polish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Armenian, Italian and Serbian. She translates literature from Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. She has received several important national awards for her literary work as well as an award for her translation of works by Miljenko Jergović. Kalytko is also the founder of the Intermezzo Short Story Festival, the first of its kind in Ukraine.
Wed, 26/08/2015
Know-how provider LVIA (Italy) - in cooperation with MAG2 Finance (Italy) - is successfully carrying out the KEP AUSTRIA project “New micro-credit scheme to women empowerment” aimed at improving the local labour market and the development of SMEs in the Albanian Shkodra Region. In order to foster gender equality, a specific loan product dedicated to women entrepreneurs named “Luleborë” and a micro-credit fund of 40.000 EUR (5.643.000 Lek) for the disbursement of the loans have be
Fri, 21/08/2015
The CEI is supporting the Serbian NGO “Radovi U Toku” in implementing the Mediation4Roma project, co-funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme.
The project aims at empowering the Roma community through a European Roma mediation framework. The implementation of a Vocational Education and Training (VET) certification for Roma Mediators is expected to recognise professions according to their features and needs.
The project aims at empowering the Roma community through a European Roma mediation framework. The implementation of a Vocational Education and Training (VET) certification for Roma Mediators is expected to recognise professions according to their features and needs.
Wed, 19/08/2015
Among the recommendations included in the Communiqué adopted by the CEI Ministers for Foreign Affairs at their meeting in Ohrid on 15 June 2015, are the need to contribute to global peace and security by establishing adequate measures for combating illegal migration and related crime, including radicalisation, violent extremism, terrorism and the foreign terrorist fighters phenomena.
Fri, 07/08/2015
Discontinuous drinking water supply, water loss of up to 70% of the overall volume supplied, and contamination of the drinking water by wastewater are amongst the pressing problems of the aqueduct of Tirana. In this framework, the CEO of the Italian company Idrostudi met the representatives of the Regulatory Body for Water Supply and Sewer System of Albania (DPUK) and of the Tirana Water Supply and Sewerage Company (UKT) in the Albanian capital on 27 – 29 July.
Fri, 07/08/2015
The press conference held on 31 August in Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the framework of the KEP AUSTRIA Project Development of the ICT business incubator in Gradiška reaffirmed the importance of promoting entrepreneurship and providing assistance to young entrepreneurs, newly established companies as well as to experienced firms.
Tue, 04/08/2015
GRAPHSENS, designed by the Laboratory for Nanostructure Epitaxy and Spintronics on Silicon (L-NESS), Como, Italy and implemented in collaboration with the University of Novi Sad (UNS), Serbia aims at designing, creating and testing hybrid sensors based on graphene for monitoring concentrations of various environmental pollutants. Serbian researchers will be granted access to Italian equipment and know-how and the collaboration should yield sensors to be tested in realistic environmental conditions.
Fri, 31/07/2015
The SUSAGRI project is designed and implemented by the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA, Italy), the Research Institute for Horticulture in Skierniewice (RIH, Poland) and the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Sarajevo (SUFASA), in collaboration with the Administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Plant Health Protection (PHPA), a central authority within the Ministry
Thu, 30/07/2015
The Italian Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies and the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac, Serbia, have joined forces in the implementation phase of the project PACKSENSOR - The impact of the controlled atmosphere on quality and safety of close-seal-packaged food applied in the SMEs of south Serbia.